The factories were producing Hurricanes at such a rate, I believe the more serious problem was pilots couldn't be trained as fast as planes could be built.
Muppet from Wexford on Zelensky.
Being Crimea is a pipe dream according to some ,
Wonder whats got the Russians spooked into building mass fortifications
I can confirm it's trivially easy. Took me less than a minute. Washing my eyeballs after took far longer.
If Germany invaded this year. And the German government brought in 1 million fanatical German people and those 1 million started to bully out the Russians living there. And the Russians started leaving due to discrimination from the German government and pressure from the 1 million German people who moved in. Now the Russians are feeling it as they can't speak or conduct business in Russian only German. Then in 4 years time from now Germany conducts a vote under armed watch from German soldiers on whether Kaliningrad should secede to Germany. Those 1 million Germans vote and we're unsure of the Russians voting but the German government announces an acceptance rate of 80% to join Germany.
Would all this be acceptable in your view?
9,100 is total equipment lost, of that around 1,700 are Russians tanks destroyed, abandoned or captured. Ukraine has lost about 457 tanks (visually confirmed, real figures are approx 10% to 20% more)
It's around a 4 to 1, or 5 to 1 ratio (factoring in captured tanks) in Ukraine's favour. However Russia is a military super-power, Ukraine isn't. Ukraine has to operate from a country that is under attack, having their electricity shut down, having their infrastructure targeted, whereas mainland Russia is untouched. Even if Ukraine are destroying more equipment, they are fighting with one arm behind their back. Russia on the other hand is free to keep pushing it's numerically superior military at them. Also, at the beginning, the Ukrainians took the Russians by surprise with the ferocity and ingenuity of their defence, the Russians are now (slowly) learning and adapting, which means destroying each Russian tank is getting increasingly harder
The international community has sent or pledged over 600 tanks to Ukraine. That's not some insignificant amount, if anything, the Ukrainians are reliant on that supply. Many are freshly renewed and maintained tanks (not old or war-torn tanks with issues. Which as you can guess, given the numbers, is vital for Ukraine. On top of that, a portion of these tanks will be modern battle tanks, which should be superior on the battlefield, as well as being a key morale boost for the Ukrainians (they are largely fighting on pure morale, as Russia has most other conditions in it's favour)
Every drone, every shell, every tank that Ukraine gets is vital, because they fighting one of the largest militaries in the world. As much as people support them, there is nothing comfortable about their situation, it's still very difficult and serious.
They were already reducing supply and raising prices to the EU after signing the Chinese agreement. Obviously China thought it would continue to grow and use gas supplies to replace coal and may well have been under the impression that the Russians were capable of building the required supply lines.
I'd imagine the Chinese are now making other plans because it's clear the Russians have no ability to engineer anything of any significance and the whole deal was (excuse the pun) a pipe dream.
Much in the same way the Russians thought they'd just waltz into Ukraine and take over while ignoring the fact that since 2014 the Ukrainian military has been preparing for this exact scenario.
China, despite their own issues at home can afford to wait this out. They are, however, playing a similarly stupid game in increasing tensions with the west which would see them eventually sanctioned into oblivion over time. They certainly don't have the control over their citizens that they think they do if the zero COVID riots are anything to go by. Sabre rattling towards the west and Taiwan might make them think they look tough but I really wonder how much of an appetite the general population has for a war and the sanctions that come with it.
To understand the logic you have to understand the imperialistic mindset.
Putin genuinly believes what he wrote in that essay, Ukrainians don't have the right, nor ability, to govern themselves without Russian control, exactly the same view the British had towards us in times past, also the very concept of there being a Ukrainian nationality/identity doesn't exist in his brain, so why would anyone fight for something that doesn't exist.
Well technically they do without knowing it. As Gaeilge Mean Scoil is Primary School, Ard Scoil is Secondary School and Oll Scoil is Tertiary or Third Level. Ard is Irish for "High". Ard Scoil is High School.
Nice try but no ,even Gaeilgeoir don't use the term,
Funny my family have all attended Gaelscoils
Its always the little slips of language that gives the game away. Similarly yesterday a rant about Zelensky, letting the superiority complex out of the bag.
But to answer another question,
How are Russian tanks getting destroyed by doing stupid thing's
You can get it on Rumble.
People say these clowns must be in the pockets of Russia. I think it's worse than that, I've met people like this. They hate the West more than Putin does. They live in a fantasy world of reductionist history where European and Western nations are the villains of everything and dictators, like Putin, are always victims of it.
They don't want peace in Ukraine, they want Putin to prevail, in order to stick it to the West. They despise Zelensky for holding Putin back. As simple as that.
I don't know what you mean. You posted that Russia has lost 9186 tanks: This is cut directly from your post:
And why can't you reply to anyone without sounding like you are having an absolute fit?
A) if you really can't access rt.com, then you're not in Ireland, or whatever wifi/Internet you're using has applied a local block (I'd guess your mummy doesn't want you looking at naughty sites).
B) I don't think anyone is interesting in answering you while you're JAQ'ing yourself as it's so transparent and the questions increasingly nonsensical.
C) are you really using 1783 as the time for borders to be reset towards?
What do you mean it took you less than a minute? It takes about 5 seconds to type rt.com into a URL bar and hitting <enter>. Are you hiding the fact that you had to take some extra steps to access the rt.com website? Because all I'm interested in is whether it can be reached the same way that your average user hits any website from their device.
If Germany ethnically cleansed Kaliningrad of it's native Russian population by planting Germans there and driving out Russians then of course I'd have a problem with it. I hope you aren't suggesting that prior to 2014 Crimea was populated by a majority Ukrainian population and that the Russians drove them all out supplanting them with 2.9 million Russians. Is that what you are trying to say?
Be god it's Vladimir Solovyov looking for viewers.
What's all this bull about Russia taking out rail track, and so no tanks can now arrive..
Yes, but to do that, one would first have to have a friend.
solovyov having technical issues and being his usual charming self!
Not trying but saying Crimeans have reported 1 million Russians were shipped into Crimea just a few years ago. Ethnic tartars who were bullied out by the Russians reported this.
Was Putin successful in attracting south african boer farmers to Crimea after do you know?
There was a big push previously to entice them to Georgia.
Good for them. So what do they call Secondary school in Irish? And I'm not going to dwell on this topic any longer. It's pointless and trivial. I said "high school" and people scream "AhhAA....he said "high school" he can't be Irish or even IN Ireland, gotcha". All the while half the posters on here pepper their posts with juvenile, transatlantic jargonese.
You got me. I'm actually freezing by bum off in a transmission station in Novosibirsk. I get a bowl of fish-head soup and a mouldy crust each day.
That's even worse story telling
You funny...almost.
I remember seeing a program about WW2 and the Battle of Britain, and one of the surprises that emerged was just how successful the British were at replacing lost / damaged aircraft. All things considered, they had a remarkable turn around time, and the results speak for them selves.
Quite an impressive tally.
How many pages will this absolute 3/4s be allowed to fill with sh1t before banned and allowed to reg again. Brain dead.
That is a hell of a lot of spent casings!
Interesting if true,and I'd be surprised if it wasn't.
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